The SWAMID Incident Management Procedures should be followed when a suspected security incident at a Federation Participant is expected to affect other Federation Participants. More specifically, the procedures applies to all suspected federated security incidents unless their extent is known, contained within the Federation Participant and cannot affect any other party. In addition to federated identities, threats to federated entities such as Identity Providers, Service Providers, Attribute Authorities and federation infrastructure such as Metadata repositories are also in scope.

• SWAMID Incident Management Procedures

Responsibilities

Federation Participants and the Federation Operator are mutually responsible for diagnosing and resolving the ongoing security incident by ensuring that it is contained, coordinating the response between the affected parties, tracking the progress of the incident response process, disseminating information, and providing expertise and guidance. In case of a security incident suspected to affect other federations or their participants, their security procedures should be respected.

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